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CIVSEC 2018: Rise of the cities

The CIVSEC 2018 Congress is Australia’s first major conference and industry exposition to address the full spectrum of national security threats. These are not military threats: rather, they range from natural disasters through organised crime to acts of terrorism by non-state players who take the low road, through a vulnerable civilian population, towards their goals.
Reflecting the challenges facing emergency first responders and law enforcement officials and policy-makers across the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, the theme for CIVSEC 2018 is “The Rise of the Cities”. A majority of the world’s mega-metropolises of 10 million inhabitants . . .

As cyber attacks continue to escalate, John Lyons, CEO of the International Cyber Security Protection Alliance, tells Robert de la Poer how international co-operation is key to combating the threat to critical systems